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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0794051273222
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: BBC Warner
Manufacturer: BBC Warner
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: BBC Warner
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 07, 2006
Running Time: 89 minutes
Sales Rank: 28088
Studio: BBC Warner
Theatrical Release Date: September 29, 1975
Editorial Review:
Description:
The Doctor, the Master and another renegade Time Lord converge in 19th century England at the height of the Luddite rebellion.
Amazon.com:
Fans of the Colin Baker-era Doctor Who (which is somewhat underrepresented on DVD) will be pleased with this terrific and well-liked serial from 1985 that pits Baker's Doctor and Peri (Nicola Bryant) against not one but two formidable foes against the backdrop of the Industrial Revolution in 19th-century England. The villains in question are the Doctor's longtime antagonist, the Master (Anthony Ainsley), who despite appearing to perish in 1984's Planet of Fire is back for more world domination, and the Rani (UK TV vet and former Hammer starlet Kate O'Mara), a cold and calculating renegade Time Lady whose experiments on the population of a mining town are turning the citizens into savage killers. Scripted by the husband-and-wife team of Pip and Jane Baker (who wrote three additional Doctor Who serials, as well as for Space: 1999), Rani is a literate and exciting Baker episode, well buoyed by O'Mara's elegantly evil performance and clever touches like the Doctor's brainstorming session with real-life engineering legend George Stephenson.
Chief among the wealth of extras on the Mark of the Rani DVD is a commentary track featuring a typically charming Baker and Bryant, who are joined by O'Mara; Baker, in particular, shines here by giving a considerable amount of production information along with personal reminiscences. 'Lords and Luddites' is a 43-minute featurette about the serial's conception and production (narrated by UK television personality Louise Brady) that's chock full of interviews with the cast and crew, including the Bakers and composer Jonathan Gibbs (who is also profiled in a short interview piece), who replaced John Lewis, who died during production (both composers' soundtracks are offered in isolated music tracks). A battery of deleted and extended scenes, a return jaunt to the production locations, related clips from the children's TV programs Blue Peter and Saturday Superstore, and the by-now standard photo gallery, text-only information track, and PDF files for the Doctor Who Annual and Radio Times listings round out the supplements. --Paul Gaita
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - One of the best Colin stories
This is a pretty decent story which benefits with it's nice location and music score. Colin is also front and center for this one and as a result, it comes off very well. This is one of those simi historicals and it works very well. The other actors also do a good job in the story with both the production and the direction going well unlike some others from the JNT era. Personally, this is the one I would recommend to people who are just getting started in this era of the program.
Rating: - One of the Overall Best Who Episodes
I think Colin Baker was wonderful as the Doctor, and this episode fires on all cylinders. Although rumour has it that Anthony Ainley was put out at having the villian Rani be percieved as having the upper hand, it was an absolutely great script, well acted by all. It has wonderful historical elements, and is among the best overall Who episodes. A funny sidebar: watch for the scene in which Colin rubs dirt on his face to blend in with the workers. In real life, the crew had placed "clean" dirt ... Read More
Rating: - best colin baker episode
i love this dvd i have watched it 50 times already. i love seeing both the rani and the master together because you get two villians for the price of one and i love the rani she is my favorite villian in Doctor who and regardless of those people who say the rani is rubbish as a villian i find her fascinating because she is such an enigma like her conterpart the master. I just wish that john nathan turner didnt take over as producer for doctor who in the early eighties perhaps colin bakers potrayal ... Read More
Rating: - One of Colin Baker's best outings as the Doctor
In most Doctor Who fandom quarters, Colin Baker as the Sixth Doctor is revered as the least favorite incarnation of the time traveling Gallifreyan. I am not of that opinion. His obnoxious, demeaning attitude reminds the viewer that the Doctor is not human and as such will not have human characteristics.
I was waiting for this one to come out for a long time. It was top on my list of Colin Baker stories to get on DVD and I picked it up on the day it was released (although I am reviewing ... Read More
Rating: - "He'd get dizzy if he tried to walk in a straight line!"
As a story, "Mark of the Rani" is all over the place. Well, in a way. Every bit of the action takes place in or around a single coal mine in Killingworth, England, some time during the early 1800's--the very cusp of the Industrial Revolution. And the plot is fairly straightforward, too: The Rani, a renegade Time Lord scientist, is going about her own business performing unethical medical experiments on Earthlings when along come the Master and the Doctor, the one trying to force her into an alliance, ... Read More
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